The New Old Hatred-Brian Bethune - Democratic Underground

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Thu Aug-12-04 08:56 PM
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The New Old Hatred-Brian Bethune

"After the Second World War, revulsion and guilt drove anti-Semitism into the shadows, but not into extinction. Now, after 60 years of Holocaust-induced hiding, atavistic patterns of thought are reasserting themselves in new shapes. "The alcoholism of the West," British novelist Iain Pears once called anti-Semitism. "It's deep in us and won't ever go away, no matter how well things are going. You cannot have a drop for years and years and everything's okay, but then circumstances change or things fall apart and you find yourself with bottle in hand."

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/religion/article.jsp?content=20040802_85739_85739

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Fri Aug-13-04 01:01 AM
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1. anti semitism has bugger all to do with I/P

you can be an anti semite and support Israel (most bigots don't really like Arabs or Muslims either) you can be anti-Israel (even vehemently) without being an anti-semite - you may even be Jewish (shock horror)

The constant connection of anti-semitism with people's views on Israel and Palestine is a total furphy.

Besides it seems such a patently obvious thing to say - no it hasn't gone away but then again neither has the bigotry that stated that Palestine was a "land without people", that attitude still causes a fair amount of hatred wouldn't you say?

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